Background

The work programme on long-term finance, launched by the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its
seventeenth session and extended at its eighteenth session, concluded its work at COP 19 in Warsaw.

COP 19, by
decision 3/CP.19, and subsequently with further specifications in decision 5/CP.20,
decided to continue deliberations on long-term finance with three core elements for the period 2014 to
2020: biennial submissions by developed country Parties on their updated approaches and strategies for
scaling up climate finance; annual in-session workshops; and biennial high-level ministerial dialogues on
climate finance.